#bergen_county

"Yeah..." He starts pulling on clothes.... pauses. "Nab."

"Yeah?" She says stretching

He approaches her, crouches, offers a hand. "Nab, I'm sorry." Sincere. "If....."

"if.. what?" Confusion

"If I could have kept you big, if I could have kept us together.... I would have."

"I don't know what you're talking about?" She says "I'm the same size I always.." She looks down at herself, "Wait, am I taller?"

She is... while still proportional, she looks about an inch taller

"I can't be. Must be the new bedding"

"You don't remember?" a little lost.

"I just.. remember feeling deleriously wonderfully happy... and then..very sad. " SHe says "I found myself.. well, it's silly...but I think I cried but I don't remember why"

His much larger thumb touches her cheek. "Me too." Softly.

Adam gets dressed.

Nabuni sighs "Okay. Whatever happened I know you did the right thing"

"You don't remember." Less a question, and he dresses faster.

"I don't. Just .. the feelings. " A pause "I think I.. I need a ruler.. "

"I have to get to the Lodge, Nab. Can you come with me?" He hands her a ruler from his desk.

"I've grown an inch, a whole inch? How is that.. Oh yes? Sure sure"

A Knock on the door

"Hop in." He holds her to his ear and heads for the door. "Who is it?" Stalling slightly.

"Lily. I thought you wanted me to help you remember?"

"Right! Right, ok! Uh. Just... hang on." Adam grabs his phone and sends a mass text to all Fae he knows. "NEED HELP. SOMETHING HAPPENED. WHO'S THERE?"

Dag: "Where are you?"

"Home, big stuff, can you come? Need to take Lily to Lodge."

Zane :Dude?

Dagmar arrives, the door opens and there is Mrs. Thomas, her hair looking a bit windblown, and she must have on make up because some of her eye crinkles look smoother today "Sam?"

Zane texts : I can be there too

Adam thunders downstairs with Nab inside and Lily by the hand. "HiSamLet'sgothanksmom!"

"Where are you taking your sister?" She says baffled, "Are you.. watching her today?" in a what's the catch tone?

"Yep, sure am, comeon Lily, let's go, I'll drive....." Hustle hustle hustle.

"I LOOOOOVE my big brother" Lily says

"Don't over sell" Nab advises

" I like my big brother" lily corrects

as they move past

"Uh.."

"Yeah? Pokemon day."

"Yep!" Adam crams everyone in the car and hops in. "Dag.... thank you." He hugs her.

Zane shows up "What's going.. your sister?"

"Pokemon day" Lily says

"Okay" they all get in the car, and now that he can't be heard by unechanted "Why is your sister enchanted?"

"Get in, get in.... she's sluagh kin."

Adam pulls out of the driveway and heads to the Lodge.

"What's going on?" Dag is crammed in, Flyswatter jammed across the backseat, through the console, buttspike on the dash...

" I know I just wondered who ..> "They zip out of the drive way. Zane looks back, and mutters something

"Guys.....it's getting harder to remember but... But I was Sidhe. I could do magic just by thinking about it."

"It was Nadeen's father."

"Wait, you had a sidhe in your head?"

"he was," Lily says "The crimson and silver went black and gold thouogh"

"No, I -was- Sidhe. All the way."